SIGH — Hail Horror Hail (review)

SIGH — Hail Horror Hail album cover Album · 1997 · Avant-garde Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
Warthur
An early masterpiece from Sigh finds them shifting from the straight-ahead black metal of their early releases into what you might describe as symphonic black metal style - but only if the symphony in question were composed by Mr. Bungle or something. The opening title track almost resembles a hybrid power-thrash metal piece, with only the shrieked vocals keeping us anchored in black metal territory, and then the rest of the album takes us on a delirious tour de force, with moods ranging from the manic (like in the enigmatic 42 49) to the epic (like album centrepiece The Dead Sing, which conjures a landscape where "even the dead CRY FOR HELP!").

If you want find the spot where Sigh definitively stepped away from the second wave Norwegian black metal forces they'd been allied with in their early years and became their own unique channel of chaos and nightmare into the world, then Hail Horror Hail is where it all happens. Give it several listens, because you won't unpack everything in this movie for your ears right away.
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Tupan wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Sigh is the national treasure of Japan!
Vim Fuego wrote:
more than 2 years ago
This was waaay out there. It helped me reconsider black metal again, after finding Darkthrone and Burzum so unimpressive.
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
To my ears, this is where Sigh got really interesting. It´s a crazy album, which signaled what was to come on subsequent releases.

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